Will Windows 10 Take It to Eleven?
One of the big surprises at Summer NAMM was Microsoft’s courtship of the audio industry, with both a general overview in the Davidson Ballroom,...
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One of the big surprises at Summer NAMM was Microsoft’s courtship of the audio industry, with both a general overview in the Davidson Ballroom,...
For decades, mastering was considered an arcane, difficult art capable of being mastered (sorry about the pun) only by those with Jedi-level skill sets.
The biggest news in Frankfurt was the Messe hierarchy shakeup and subsequent schedule changes.
Did you get your questionnaire from Apple and Microsoft about what audio/video-oriented features you wanted in their latest operating systems? Neither did I, so...
This column covered the subscription model in June 2013—but a lot has happened since then, and now our industry has followed Adobe’s lead.
Auto-Tune hit the world in 1997, and Antares has continued to update its software since then.
It was a cliffhanger: With the founder of the audio industry’s only virtual awards show absent due to pressing family concerns, the Anderton Awards...
The late John Simonton, PAIA Electronics’ founder, was a visionary—and I don’t use that word often.
Many people maintain that DAWs have evolved to being much the same— they all cut, paste, copy, import, export, etc.
In our computer-based world, every now and then, there’s a wrenching transition.
The most valuable part of any computer is its data—and the amount of data being generated by the modern studio continues to increase.
The Anderton Awards, the virtual awards ceremony that hits AES every year like a 24-hour intestinal flu, got off to a great start!
It’s clear that music distribution is increasingly about downloads and streaming (iTunes is the top US music retailer), which is certainly convenient—with a decent...
The backdrop: a hotly-contested conflict of national importance, with mud-slinging partisans on both sides going over the top with condemnation and praise for their...
The March column covered the age of specialization in DAWs, and how more programs are taking a different tack rather than trying to be...
In last issue’s Software Tech, we covered the iPad takeover of the Winter 2012 NAMM show, but there were many other developments with major...
Here’s the lead sentence for last year’s Winter NAMM show column: “In my April 2010 column written after the debut of Apple’s iPad, I...
Apple has ditched Logic Express and SoundTrack Pro, put Logic Pro 9 in the App store as download-only for $199.99, and priced MainStage 2...
Even with the announcement that the Anderton Awards would proceed as planned (despite that little misunderstanding last year with celebrity presenter Kim Jong Il...
In my April 2010 column written after the debut of Apple’s iPad, I wrote, “The age of desktop dominance is over, which has major...
Many software updates consist of basically a major feature or two, some minor features, maybe something that used to be optional thrown in for...
The 2011 AES certainly started off on a sour note, when Federal Agents seized everything in the Audio-Technica booth because a security guard overhead...
Apple has announced new MacBook Pros, and of course, they have the latest processors (quad core and dual core i7), as well as faster...
As I write this, last week the Dow dropped 700 points. Commodity prices got hammered.
Price notwithstanding, the idea of replacing hard drives with solid-state drives (SSDs) seems like a nobrainer. But like so many aspects of high-tech, what...
Since their inception, DAWs had their own arms race going on, with each successive version piling on the features.
If you still think of a DJ as “the guy who played Streisand’s ‘Evergreen’ at my cousin’s wedding,” you’re in for a shock.
The French have a phrase for it: “Reculer pour mieux sauter,” which loosely translated means that sometimes you have to step backward in order...
Remember those giant mixers that used to be in every major recording studio?
The allure of a powerful, portable setup for recording, mixing and even mastering has been the Holy Grail for audio professionals on the go.